{"id":500,"date":"2008-08-15T08:15:02","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T12:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=500"},"modified":"2008-08-15T08:15:37","modified_gmt":"2008-08-15T12:15:37","slug":"moral-authority-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=500","title":{"rendered":"Moral Authority II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.thinkprogress.org\/archives\/2008\/08\/how_quickly_we_forget_2.php\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Yglesias<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Watch in amazement as John McCain condemns Russia for having the temerity to cross an international boundary &#8212; &#8220;in the 21st century, nations don&#8217;t invade other nations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3h_ZbW2REcI&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We all recall, of course, John McCain&#8217;s outrage when the United States violated this rule back in 2003.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=496\" target=\"_blank\">James Taranto&#8217;s prediction<\/a> has quickly come true.&#160; Which got me wondering; how many dozen UN resolutions does it take before an invasion is OK by international standards, and how many resolutions was Russia enforcing when it invaded the Republic of Georgia?<\/p>\n<p>[tags]Mathew Yglesias,John McCain,Russia,James Taranto,Best of the Web Today,United Nations,Republic of Georgia[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Yglesias: Watch in amazement as John McCain condemns Russia for having the temerity to cross an international boundary &#8212; &#8220;in the 21st century, nations don&#8217;t invade other nations.&#8221; We all recall, of course, John McCain&#8217;s outrage when the United States violated this rule back in 2003. So James Taranto&#8217;s prediction has quickly come true.&#160; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,21,45,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-liberal","category-russia","category-united-nations","category-war"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}